Initial response to brief

Our brief was to create an opening sequence for our own film. We needed to be able to incorporate all of the techniques that we have learnt so far on the course, and experiment with a wide range of shots, creative titles, and seamless and/or inventive editing in order to develop a piece of work with high quality. Our task was to select a film genre, may be it : horror, science fiction, action/adventure,gangster/crime,romantic comedy, thriller and so on. We decided on thriller, simply because we wanted to pick a genre in which we could capture a wide range of interest shots, and create a sense of enigma and tension throughout, and believed these aspects that are key conventions of thriller films, would be ones that would make our film much more original and interesting, in order to hold our audiences full attention, and leave them feeling unnerved and eager to know more. We did consider horror but believed that on a 'low budget' production, we would not be able to convey the true depth that a horror film has to depict, and believed that if we tried to recreate a horrific opening, that we may not be able to scare our audience enough for it to be a successful sequence. We also considered doing a romantic comedy, but we believed that unless we found actors of an extremely high ability, that we would struggle to capture a realistic relationship, and we wanted to be able to make a film that displayed work to the best of our ability. I was really excited when I heard what our brief was and in our first brainstorm our sheet was spilling with ideas,suggestions, and illustrations, of what sort of things our film could include, our overly keen approach, allowed us to have a mountain of ideas to which we selected the best and condensed them together to create the basic story line of something we thought could have great potential. 

Response to group choice

After selecting our genre of Thriller and all brainstorming ideas of what kind of themes we could incorporate and which of our suggestions would be best to be put forward and used for our final storyline. We selected one idea, and then fed of this, all contributing to our basic concept,and building it up to be something that was a lot more inventive and creative. Someone would come up with something new to trump the old suggestion and suddenly ideas were fitting together perfectly, and everything started to become much more real and considerably more original. We wanted to make our film quite creepy, and bewildering, drawing on sensitive themes and disturbing issues, that would make our audience feel uncomfortable but at the same time enjoy our work. We decided to base our piece around a man who has a past blotted with conspiracy, we wanted to create an effect that would make our audience feel connected to our main victim and decided we wanted to incorporate the use of flash backing to another key characters suspiciously dark and frightening past.Once everything was fixed, we then started to plan or visual aids like costume and makeup, our locations, or actors, and ideas of what shots we were going to incorporate, these messy scribbles soon turned into a storyboard in which our thriller was starting to come together.